I'm studying Redhat Linux 7, topic Monitoring and managing Linux processes in it I understand Processess and its command.
But I do not understand "Controlling Jobs" and Running jobs in the background ...

I need to run in parallel a set of computationally intensive tasks. What I was trying to do is to maintain a list of pids corresponding to the running jobs and update the list of running jobs with ps ...

Say you're in a directory and you want to check something in another directory, so you type bash to spawn a new shell so you can cd and check that thing and then type exit to get out and go back to ...

I accidentally "stopped" my telnet process. Now I can neither "switch back" into it, nor can I kill it (it won't respond to kill 92929, where 92929 is the processid.)
So, my question is, if you have ...

I run 10+ different commands from 10+ different directories, and I need a better process to track everything.
I do a lot of debugging, and often times I need to work on multiple issues in parallel. I ...

Using Red Hat, I sent few jobs to a cluster and got "job IDs" in return. Using qstat I can see only one is running, one was canceled and the rest are still in the queue.
I wrote something like this: ...

Job control is probably my favorite thing about Linux. I find myself, often, starting a computationally demanding process that basically renders a computer unusable for up to days at a time, and being ...

If I ssh to a box and start a task that will take some time to complete I usually press control+z to pause the process, and then immediately type bg 1 to put run it in the background.
I can then type ...

From gnome-terminal I know the ability to suspend a job with C-z, and then send it to the background. When I close the terminal the process does not end. Where is the job being managed from, or is it ...

I have a surveillance camera and a program records videos when motion is detected. Basically, this program saves the video in a very heavy format.
My solution was to call a script that converts the ...

I am now preparing process of recrutation for group of Unix/Linux Administrators and I was wondering if maybe you have idea for fun or tricky or hard questions to ask the candidates in order to test ...